Ireland beat Wales, 17-15, before a raucous full house in Cardiff. Since 2000, no team had won more games in the Six Nations tournament than Ireland, but until Saturday it had not turned those victories into a title.

March 23, 2009, Monday

Before his United States team played Japan on Saturday morning for the bronze medal, Manager Davey Johnson planned to make a quick speech. Just to remind his players that a consolation prize in what might be the final Olympic baseball competition was...

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There was a time Friday night when Rafael Nadal was chasing shadows. As Novak Djokovic cruised through the second set, smashing winners, Nadal, the best defensive player in tennis, seemed flat-footed. Yet Nadal found an answer and a victory,...

July 27, 2006, Thursday

A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing executives of the Bank of New York Company of looting assets from Inkombank, a Russian bank that is now defunct. The suit by Inkombank depositors claims that bank executives, Russian mobsters and...

An investigation has turned up evidence that $500 million, far more than previously believed, was transferred to Swiss banks from accounts at the Bank of New York as part of a Russian plot to avoid taxes and launder money. An investigating...

Not long ago, MDM Bank, one of the hundreds of modest-sized banks that sprang up here after the collapse of communism, offered a service that allowed Russian companies to cut costs, at the government's expense. Instead of paying salaries to their...

In a city where banks sprout like mushrooms, and die just as fast, the money-moving network described in the unfolding Bank of New York case quickly branches into a web of control and ownership. Some strands reach to the highest levels of Russian...

Only a week ago, the Bank of New York enjoyed a brief respite from the money laundering investigation that has engulfed it for the last 18 months. Federal and state regulators imposed embarrassing sanctions on the bank that took it to task for lax...

A former executive of the Bank of New York and her husband told a federal judge yesterday that they helped a group of small but politically connected Russian banks create an elaborate money laundering scheme that moved billions of dollars out of...